Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 1670 in lilypond: Allow numbers in variable names: violin1mvt2 = c'

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Comment #21 on issue 1670 by address@hidden: Allow numbers in variable  
names: violin1mvt2 = c'
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1670

After some syntax discussions (GLISS) it appears that LilyPond will  
continue to allow notes outside of any {} or <> braces, so defining  
variables containing digits continues to be ambiguous:
    links2a = \myFunction   recs2a = \otherFunction
(In Spanish, 'recs2' is a note, which could be an argument of \myFunction,  
and 'a' is a valid variable name.)  There is widespread opinion, comments  
2--6, that using quotes around things like "recs2a" to resolve this  
ambiguity, is unwise.

Bernard pointed out that a designated lead-in character before the digits  
would avoid any ambiguity.  He suggested preceding any digits with '0', but  
in LilyPond the dot character '.' is already familiar as a joining  
character, as in "\override Staff.BarLine".

Then we can continue to write \skip2 for a \skip of duration 2, but we can  
also write
  violin.1 = \relative f {c'4 d e f}
  \new Staff { \violin.1 }

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